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Area outages top 8,500

FITCHBURG -- These are the latest power outage numbers as of 8:30 p.m.:

Unitil Corp.'s coverage area in Massachusetts saw about 3,683 customers, or 12.7 percent, without power. The number peaked at 20 percent at 5 p.m.

Numbers provided by the company showed 1,101 customers affected in Fitchburg, 299 in Ashby, 615 in Townsend and 1,668 in Lunenburg.

As of 8:30 p.m. the storm had knocked out about 1,074 customers in Lancaster, 150 customers in Westminster, less than 5 in Shirley and 3,679 customers in Leominster. Most of those power losses occurred after 2 p.m. when the wind speed picked up and there were 213,000 National Grid customers without power in the state.

The Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant, the town-owned utility company, reported only a two to three customers were without power at any given time by press time, but were expected to be restored within a few hours.

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